Build once, reuse everywhere — with costs that stay accurate
Create sauces, doughs, stocks, and bases as standalone sub-recipes. Use them as ingredients in other recipes, and Cucinovo calculates the true cost through every level of nesting automatically.
Start building sub-recipesWhy Sub-Recipes?
Professional kitchens do not build every dish from raw ingredients. A béchamel goes into lasagna, moussaka, and croque monsieur. A chicken stock appears in risotto, soups, and pan sauces. These foundational preparations are made in batches and used across dozens of recipes.
Without sub-recipes, you have two bad options: duplicate the sauce recipe inside every dish that uses it and update costs in five places when butter prices change, or skip tracking component costs entirely and accept that your food cost numbers are wrong.
Cucinovo treats sub-recipes as first-class building blocks. Create your béchamel once, assign it as a component in any recipe, and the cost per portion flows through automatically. Update the price of butter, and every recipe that uses béchamel — and every recipe that uses those recipes — recalculates instantly.
What you get with Sub-Recipes
Recursive cost calculation
Costs roll up through every level of nesting. A stock used in a sauce used in a main dish calculates correctly at each layer. Change one ingredient price and the entire chain updates.
Single source of truth
Define each preparation once. When you adjust the recipe for your marinara sauce, every dish that uses it reflects the change immediately. No duplicate recipes, no manual syncing.
Circular dependency detection
Cucinovo prevents you from creating loops where recipe A uses recipe B which uses recipe A. The system detects circular references before they can create infinite cost calculations.
Works on all plans
Sub-recipes are available on every plan, including the free Household plan. Home cooks can track the cost of a homemade pasta dough used across multiple pasta recipes just as easily as a restaurant.
Get started in minutes
Create a sub-recipe
Build your base preparation — a sauce, dough, stock, or any reusable component — as a standalone sub-recipe with its own ingredient list, quantities, and yield.
Add it as a component in other recipes
When building a recipe, search your sub-recipe library and add components just like you add ingredients. Specify how much of the sub-recipe each dish uses.
Costs flow through automatically
Cucinovo calculates the cost of the sub-recipe from its ingredients, then applies that cost proportionally wherever it is used. Multi-level nesting works the same way.
Update once, propagate everywhere
When an ingredient price changes or you modify a sub-recipe's formula, every parent recipe recalculates. You see the real cost impact across your entire menu in seconds.
Built for how you actually work
Standardizing kitchen preparations
Define your house sauces, stocks, and doughs as sub-recipes so every cook follows the same formula. Consistent preparations mean consistent dish quality and predictable costs across shifts and locations.
Accurate menu costing with shared components
When your hollandaise appears in eggs Benedict, asparagus dishes, and fish courses, sub-recipes ensure the butter and egg costs are counted accurately in each dish instead of estimated or forgotten.
Home bakers tracking dough and filling costs
A pie crust used in quiche, fruit pies, and savory tarts can be defined once. See the true cost of each finished bake including the crust, filling, and toppings as separate tracked components.
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Stop duplicating recipes across your menu
Sub-recipes with automatic cost roll-up on all plans. Free for home cooks. 14-day trial for restaurants.
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